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Illustration design courtesy of May Taing.

Ask Madelaine: Response to Anonymous

By Madelaine Vikse, Editor-in-Chief | January 12, 2023

I've recently befriended an underclassman who seems to look up to me a lot and asks me for advice often. I feel a little bit of self pressure to be a good role model for this university student, but they're also my friend. How do I not mess this up? Anonymous You...

Illustration design courtesy of May Taing.

Ask Madelaine: Response to ‘A Decade Apart or 2’

By Madelaine Vikse, Editor-in-Chief | January 18, 2022

The topic for this week's advice column focuses on a crush, but the complications and mixed reactions that this individual is facing from friends, family members and co-workers. I have long struggled with a personal dilemma in which I always happen...